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...processing this directive]each earns more than $20,000 a year. The rebels conspire behind brocade curtains in air-conditioned homes and offices. Wrote Time's Reporter Sam Halper after sitting in on one such meeting last week: "Silent servants opened the doors, poured the drinks and arranged the foam-cushioned armchairs in a neat plotters' circle. The only proletarians were the help." The conservatives at the top fear that the longer they stay behind their desks while Castro is in the hills getting headlines, the smaller their influence on him will be. Recently he summoned five of the Havana...
...sales of liquids and pills surging from $18 million in 1980 to $240 million last year. Those who gag on the tablets, which are huge gullet pluggers, can even try getting their mineral boost in a novel way -- EZ-CAL Soft Calcium Whip, an aerosol can filled with calcium foam that was introduced in test markets last week. In short, just about anything consumable has been laced with the stuff...
...generation of young furniture users is emerging, and savvy designers at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York City last month were busy catering to it with sleek high chairs made of colorful foam and playful quilts covered in herds of elephants and pods of dolphins. Indeed, mixed in among the requisite Herman Miller chairs and LED lights were plenty of bassinets, pint-size beds and bookshelves from cutting-edge kids-gear companies like Offi, ducduc and Netto Collection. Some visitors were even toting toddlers and babies as they perused the stands. "This is the first time...
...popular introduction at the ICFF, for example, came from renowned product designer Yves Behar, who was hired by a small, San Francisco-- based company called Fleurville to create a cool high chair. The result is the Calla chair, a pistil-shape foam-and-aluminum piece that will retail for a cool $925 and, like the Bugaboo, will come in customized colors. Similarly, Philippe Starck has applied his eye to strollers, portable high chairs and diaper bags for McLaren, the popular British stroller brand. Designers like David Netto have found their niche giving such nursery staples as cribs and changing tables...
...innovation and color to turn formerly utilitarian pieces into style statements. Tumi's new Ducati line features eight different travel bags with racy black-and-red styling. Samsonite Black Label hired trendy industrial designer Marc Newson to create a lightweight, colorful line of luggage called Scope. He used EVA foam--once found only in sneakers--to create one of the lightest uprights on the market...